liquidate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
The mafia liquidated the informer
Types & categories
- kill hypernym
Related & opposite
- liquidation derivation
- liquidator derivation
Sense 2 verb
eliminate by paying off (debts)
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- liquidation derivation
Sense 3 verb
convert into cash
I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband
Types & categories
- cash hypernym
Sense 4 verb
settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off
liquidate a company
Types & categories
- settle hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | liquidation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | liquidator |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | liquidation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | pay up |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | lift |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | amortize |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | cash |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | settle |